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So, I’m hackin’ some PERL. As frequently happens, the fact that it’s PERL leads me down this crazy obscure path of references to arrays and arrays of references. I would up doing something the hardest and most bass-ackwards way possible: print ${@{split(/ /, $string)}}->[$i] . “\n”; This produced an error message I’ve never seen . . . → Read More: Perl humor I think something bad just happened in MA. Let’s see if I can get this straight. The details may be off, but the spirit is correct: . . . → Read More: Geeky Phone News One funny story that came out last night: My friend and I have been building some software to do some geeky stuff. To support this, he’s had some old server class machines sitting on the floor in his living room, and we’ve been tinkering with the wires. Yesterday, he adopted a puppy. Cute little . . . → Read More: Crap in the server Slashdork reports that: Sun’s pay-for-use grid computing services hasn’t picked up a single customer yet.” From the article: “The missing customers prove quite shocking when you consider that utility computing users must agree to be named in marketing programs as part of their contract with Sun – a fact learned by The Register and confirmed . . . → Read More: The grid sucks, part 2,374 Check this out: I was digging for some old references, and I found this: An article in chinese with my name on it. I plugged it into a handy dandy web translator, and this popped out: “Should the computation environment which promotes turn the reality” It’s a mangled rewrite of an article that I wrote . . . → Read More: Me, but in Chinese! For the past month or so, my company has been using a spam blocking technique called “greylisting”, and I’m willing to swear by it. It’s the best ever. It works like this (all automatic and invisible and stuff): The first time I get mail from a particular source, I reject it with a “transient” . . . → Read More: Spam Spent the afternoon with two guys from Intel, who were explaining why their technology is cool and getting cooler. While the information was nice, it was even nicer to feel important. Like, I’m some sort of valuable guy to know, and getting on my good side is important to them. Yeah, that’s it. In . . . → Read More: Corporate… |
